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Council News 3From the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3From the IEEE ITS Council President . . . . . . . . . . . 3An Automated Gas Station Attendant . . . . . . . . . . . 4Calendar of Council Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Report on the IEEE IV Symposium 2002 . . . . . . . . . 9CFP: IEEE ITSC 2002, Sept 3-6, Singapore . . . . . . . . 10CFP: IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2003 . . . . . 11Report on IEEE Transactions on ITS . . . . . . . . . . . 12IEEE Transactions on ITS - Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13CFP: IEEE Transactions on ITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15CFP: Special issue on Adaptive Cruise Control Systems . 18Disruptive? Technology? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Mixin’ Bizness and Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Editor’s note: A. L. Drozd made IEEE Fellow this year . 22

Non-Council ITS News 23CFP: IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine . . . . . . . . . 23Faculty position in ITS and Telematics . . . . . . . . . . . 23A glimpse on the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Upcoming Conferences, Workshops and Symposia . . . . . 26CFP: Special Issue of IEEE Robotics & Automation Mag. 27CFP: Transport Systems Telematics 2002 . . . . . . . . . 28

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Vol. 4, No. 3, July 2002 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Council Newsletter

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COUNCIL——————————————

President: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Daniel J. Dailey, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA

Immediate Past President: . . . . . . . . . Umit Ozguner, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA

Vice President Conferences: . . . . . . . . Hideki Hashimoto, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 106-8558, Japan

Vice President Finance: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Emily Sopensky, The Iris Company, Austin, TX 78751, USA

Vice President Publications: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Yilin Zhao, Motorola, Libertyville, IL 60048, USA

Secretary: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Charles J. Herget, Livermore, CA 94550, USA

Transactions Editor: . . . .Chelsea C. White, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA

Newsletter Editor: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alberto Broggi, Universita di Parma, Parma, I-43100, Italy

Committees

Finance Committee: Emily Sopensky (Chair), Richard Klafter, Bill Scherer, Paul KostekConferences and Meetings Committee: Hideki Hashimoto (Chair), T. F. Fwa, Michel Parent, Toshio

Fukuda, Ichiro Masaki, Emily Sopensky, Umit OzugunerPublications Committee: Yilin Zhao (Chair), Alberto Broggi, Hideki Hashimoto, Toshio Fukuda, Ichiro

Masaki, Roger Pollard, Fei-Yue Wang, Chelsea WhiteNominations and Appointments Committee: Umit Ozguner (Chair), Rye Case, Toshio Fukuda, Chip

WhiteConstitution and Bylaws Committee: Rye Case (Chair), Charles Herget, Umit Ozguner, Chip WhiteTechnical Activities Committee: Ichiro Masaki (Chair), Anna Hauksdottir (subcommittee on Air Traf-

fic), Ryuji Kohno (subcommittee on Communication Networks), Bin Ning (subcommittee on Railroads)

Standards: Robert Barrett

Long Term Planning: Umit Ozguner

Fellows Nomination Committee: Richard Klafter

Public Relations: Ka C. Cheok

Education Outreach: Benn Coifman

ITSC Liaison: Toshio Fukuda

IV Liaison: Ichiro Masaki

WC Liaison: Chip White

Societies Representatives

Aerospace and Electronic Systems: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paul Kostek, Bob TrebitsAntennas and Propagation: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L. Wilson Pearson, W. Ross StoneCommunications: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Algiridas PakstasComputer: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Alberto BroggiConsumer Electronics: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brian MarkwalterControl Systems: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Petros Ioannou, Ka C. CheokElectromagnetic Compatibility: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Drozd, John NorgardElectron Devices: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Troxell, Krishna ShenaiIndustrial Electronics: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brian K. Johnson, Krishnan RamuInstrumentation and Measurement: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stanley Young, Carlos SunMicrowave Theory and Techniques: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charlies Jackson, Hiroshi KondohPower Electronics: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Seth Sanders, Dean PattersonReliability: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lori M. Kaufman, Ann CampbellRobotics and Automation: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Stefano Stramigioli, Katsushi IkeuchiSignal Processing: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James KrogmeierSystems, Man and Cybernetics: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fei-Yue Wang, William SchererVehicular Technology: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert M. Barrett, E. Ryerson Case


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Council News

From the Editorby Alberto Broggi

Dear Colleagues,Just a few words to keep you updated on the status of our newsletter. It is now distributed to over 11,000

e-mail addresses, and more are coming on a regular basis. From this issue, we have installed an accountingsystem that will allow us to count the number of accesses to our electronic newsletter. Multiple accesses viacache/proxy systems will be counted as well: last issue was accessed 2618 times (excluding cached copies).

Anyone interested in adding new information to the Newsletter and the two sections related to web sitesand conferences (as well as special issues of interest to our community) is welcome to contact the e-mailaddresses specified in the introduction of each section.

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From the IEEE ITS Council Presidentby Daniel J. Dailey

Dear Colleagues,

It is fall once more and time for the annual ITSC meeting. This year’s meeting is in Singapore, September3-6, and promises to be very interesting. The emphasis on ITS activities is particularly striking in Asia, andwith the upcoming 2008 Olympics in China many ITS projects are either starting or are underway. Singaporeis one of the most wired nations on earth and ITSC2002 will have a variety of tours and demonstrationsof operating large scale ITS systems in addition to the high quality technical sessions that typify the ITSCmeetings. As always, delegates from every continent will be reporting on the newest and most wide rangingITS activities worldwide. Last year I reported that ITSC2001 had delegates from every continent exceptAntarctica. This resulted in the newsletter editor commenting to me that next year he would be reportingon remotely controlled snow cats operated in Antarctica and we would have covered all the continents! Ilook forward to hearing about ITS in Antarctica!

You can find more information on the program and tours at: http://www.ieee.org/itsc/2002.

I hope you will join us in Singapore at the premier technical conference on ITS in the world today.





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An Automated Gas Station Attendantby Shiu Kit Tso, Ka Lun Fan, Yongde Zhang, and Chun Man Chan

An Automated Gas Station Attendant

Reprint of the article appeared onIEEE Intelligent Systems, March-April 2002, p.84–87

Shiu Kit Tso is the director of the Centre for Intelligent Design, Automation, and Manu-facturing, City University of Hong Kong. His major interests are intelligent machine systemsand service robotics. He has industrial experience in industrial electronics and automation. Heobtained his BSc (Eng.) from the University of Hong Kong and his MSc and PhD from theUniversity of Birmingham, UK, all in electrical and electronic engineering. He is a fellow ofthe Institution of Electrical Engineers and of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. He is achartered engineer and a senior member of the IEEE. Contact him at the Centre for IntelligentDesign, Automation, and Manufacturing (CIDAM), City Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong,Hong Kong; [email protected].

Ka Lun Fan is an assistant engineer at the Centre for Intelligent Design, Automation, andManufacturing, City University of Hong Kong. His major INTERests are service automationin medicine and in nondestructive testing (NDT). He has research and industrial experience inengineering design, biosignal processing, and NDT sensing. He received his PhD from ImperialCollege, UK. Contact him at the Centre for Intelligent Design, Automation, and Manufacturing(CIDAM), City Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.

Yongde Zhang is a research associate at the Centre for Intelligent Design, Automation, andManufacturing, City University of Hong Kong. His major interests are engineering design for au-tomatic systems and climbing robots. He has research experience in mechatronics and robotics.He received his PhD from the Harbin Institute of Technology. Contact him at the Centre for In-telligent Design, Automation, and Manufacturing (CIDAM), City Univ. of Hong Kong, KowloonTong, Hong Kong.

Chun Man Chan is a research assistant at the Centre for Intelligent Design, Automation,and Manufacturing, City University of Hong Kong. His major interests are system integrationfor automatic mechanisms and climbing robots. He received his BEng (with first-class honors)in mechatronic engineering at the City University of Hong Kong. Contact him at the Centrefor Intelligent Design, Automation, and Manufacturing (CIDAM), City Univ. of Hong Kong,Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.

Having to staff a gasoline station with human at-tendants at night or in remote rural areas poses sev-eral potential difficulties, including health hazardsand security problems. To eliminate the need for at-tendants in such situations, we have designed anddeveloped a laboratory prototype of an automaticpetrol-refueling station (see Figure 1). Our APS in-corporates a user terminal, refueling robot, sensingsystem, and motion control system. It aims to pro-vide automatic, intelligent, fast, and convenient 24-

hour automobile refueling.

The user terminal

The terminal provides a simple user interface con-sisting of a smart card system, keyboard, monitor,and printer. After inserting a smart card into thesmart-card reader, the user keys in a password and se-lects the kind and amount of fuel. The user can check





the smart card’s records and updated status. Dur-ing refueling, the monitor displays the procedure’sprogress. The printer outputs a receipt after the APScompletes the refueling. In addition, the terminal fea-tures an emergency key so that the user can stop therobot immediately. The robot resets automaticallyafter the user releases the key.

In a deployed system, the terminal would be de-signed for outdoor use, and the user would be able toaccess it while seated in the car. Both the smart-cardreader and the computer would need to be protectedfrom possible abuse.

Figure 1: The laboratory setup of our APS (auto-matic petrol-refueling station) prototype.

The robot

An end effector connected to the robot’s wristholds the gas pump nozzle and moves it to the parkedcar’s gas tank opening. After the APS determinesthe opening’s inclination, the wrist adjusts the noz-zle’s pitch and yaw to prepare it for insertion. Figure2 shows the end effector inserting the nozzle into thetank opening. (As a separate development to sim-plify refueling, we have built a combined gas tank lidand cap that lets the nozzle enter the tank openingwithout unscrewing the cap.)

A Cartesian frame with three independent axescarries the end effector. Each of the frame’s threesliding, prismatic wrist joints can change its coordi-nates without affecting the other two axes’ coordi-nates. The end effector is attached to the end ofthe z-axis, whose extensible length is 800 millime-ters. Because the z-axis is arranged horizontally, thisjoint must bear the maximum bending moment whenfully extended. The maximum loading at the z-axis

joint’s tip is 10 kilograms. This axis has three sec-tions and is driven by a ball screw. If the axis weredivided into more than three sections, the last sec-tion’s diameter might be too small, thus decreasingthe joint’s strength. The Cartesian frame and wristjoints together provide five degrees of freedom, whichare useful for adjusting the nozzle when inserting itinto the tank.

Figure 2: The end effector inserts the gas pumpnozzle into the gas tank opening.

Sensing

Our APS uses four types of sensing devices: in-frared sensors, a flow sensor, a force/torque sensor,and a vision system. A microcontroller controls allthe sensors (except for the vision system) and inte-grates all the sensor signals. It sends the data in anappropriate format through an RS-232 interface tothe main computer. The microcontroller also controlsthe gasoline valve and the counter displays, whichshow the gas output and price.

Infrared The APS employs two IR displacementsensors–one (IR-1) in the end effector and the other(IR-2) fixed on one side of the frame (see Figure 3).These sensors roughly but quickly estimate the gastank opening’s location.

Imagine that a driver has parked a car in front ofthe robot. First, IR-2 checks the clearance betweenthe car and the robot, then reports whether the caris in the acceptable area. (If the car is not properlyparked, the computer will issue a warning statementat the terminal to the driver. The robot will not per-form any action until the car is properly parked.)



Figure 3: The range for searching for the gas tankopening.

To shorten the time searching for the opening, theAPS then moves the end effector (with IR-1) towardthe rear of the car. (In Hong Kong, gas stations nor-mally operate with single-file traffic flow–that is, inone way, out the other. So, the system does not needto determine which end is the car’s front and whichis the rear.) Starting from one end of the robot, theend effector moves horizontally at approximately onemeter above ground to search for the car body. Thesearch range is up to 1,000 mm wide and 800 mmlong. The APS can use IR-1’s and IR-2’s range read-ings to calculate the car’s parking angle (see Figure4). This gives the yaw angle for the z-axis wrist. Ifthe yaw angle is within the acceptable range, the endeffector will move to the opening’s rough location.

Vision The vision system precisely locates the gastank opening. The APS uses a vision system becauseit is the most flexible choice for this purpose.

First, a 2/3-inch CCD (charge-coupled device)camera captures an image of the tank’s opening.With this camera, the APS can obtain a precise mea-surement from an image with over 400,000 pixels.However, the environment’s brightness level can af-fect image quality. A relatively dark environment willincrease image noise; a light source originating fromthe side of the opening will generate a large shadow.To solve such problems, the end effector carries anartificial light source. When the camera takes theimage, the light turns on to eliminate shadows andimprove image contrast.

On the basis of the image, the APS determines theopening’s position and orientation. It converts thisdata to the robot frame’s global coordinates, whichthe microcontroller uses to drive the joints to the re-quired positions.

Force/torque During the entire refueling process,a force/torque sensor at the z-axis wrist gives feed-

back signals to aid motion control and to avoid dam-aging the car.

Flow The flow sensor measures the quantity ofgasoline delivered.

Figure 4: Yaw angle detection.

Motion control

The robot’s five degrees of freedom comprise thethree linear motions (x, y, and z) for the frame andtwo rotational motions (pitch and yaw) for the endeffector. The APS subdivides motion control intoframe control and end effector control. If the carparks in the expected space, the gas tank opening’sposition and orientation will lie within a reasonablerange. We can also limit the range of the five DOFsto suitable values. For the prototype, X is 1,200 mm,Y is 800 mm, Z is 1,900 mm, pitch is 200o and yawis 150o.

A programmable logic controller executes the x-,y-, and z-axis control. The APS sends the computedcoordinates and speed to the PLC, which then con-trols the frame’s three AC motors via three inverters.An encoder on each motor monitors the motor’s po-sition, which it sends back to the PLC.

Two DC servomotors drive the end effector. Acontroller card controls them, and a current amplifiersupplies their power. The controller card contains aPD (proportional-derivative) controller for each mo-tor.

Moreover, the controller card uses the signals fromthe force/torque sensor to apply both force controlto the x, y, and z motions and stiffness control (withsuitable force control gains) to the pitch and yaw mo-tions.

We developed our APS to be a more or less im-mediate solution that provides the essential functions



and assumes minimum alteration to current cars. Itsbasic concept is similar to other systems. However,unlike the others, it does not use transponders, and itexploits force sensing. The APS’s simple but robustmechanicalsystem design lends itself to outdoor usewith minimum maintenance requirements. We planto make our system safer by replacing the DC motorsat the wrist with pneumatic motors.

Besides eliminating the problems associated withhuman gas station attendants, automatic refuelingsystems can assist drivers who are unable or unwill-

ing to handle gas pump nozzles. Such features au-gur these systems’ eventual popularity. However, forthis prediction to come true, researchers must develophighly reliable, safe, and secure systems.

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to the Research Grants Council,Hong Kong SAR, for providing a Central Allocationgrant supporting several service robot projects.

Other Robotic Refueling Systems

European engineers have been working on refueling robots since the late ’80s. In France, Robosoft(www.robosoft.fr) has developed Oscar, a robotic refueling system for buses. Using several sensors and atransponder mounted to a floor panel, Oscar automatically positions itself close to the gasoline tank cap.

German researchers have also developed several robotic refueling systems. In 1993, Anton Bauer GmbHdesigned and constructed Robin (www.ipa.fhg.de/srdatabase/robin.html), like Oscar, to refuel buses. Alsolike Oscar, Robin uses a transponder to obtain a bus’s geometrical data as it enters the lane for refueling. Toscan the position of the bus’s gasoline tank cap, the transponder, its associated sensors, and the manipulatormove on rails parallel to the bus’s longitudinal axis. Five inductive distance sensors help Robin preciselyadjust the gas pump nozzle.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (Fraunhofer IPA), in conjunc-tion with BMW and Mercedes-Benz, has designed a robotic refueling device for automobiles (www.ipa.fhg.de//information/Daten&Ereignisse/euro inno.php3 [in German]). Unlike other systems, this one can establisha solid connection between the nozzle and the gas tank opening. A set of cameras detects the car’s exactposition (especially the gas tank cap), and laser scanners monitor the robot’s workspace. The IPA claimsthat this system can remove 95 percent of the toxic vapor and can refill a car with liquid hydrogen [1].

In Northern Europe, Sweden is one of the pioneering countries to install robotic refueling systems atstations throughout the countryside. In 1991, Autofill Europe (www.autofill.se [in Swedish]) developed theAutofill system. Autofill consists of a pump, a robotic manipulator with three prismatic joints, and a userterminal connected to the station’s main computer. A transponder, fitted with various types of sensingmodules, transmits vehicle data (for example, dimensions) to Autofill. Guided by a camera and othersensors, the manipulator positions the nozzle in front of the lid. A vacuum gripper opens the lid. Distancesensors help Autofill accurately reposition the nozzle before guiding it into the gas tank opening.

Reference 1. ”Fraunhofer IPA Tankroboter,” IEEE and Fraunhofer IPA Database on Service Robots;Fraunhofer Institut fur Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung, Stuttgart, Germany, 1998, www.ipa.fhg.de//srdatabase/ipatankrobot.html.


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Calendar of Council Eventsby Charles J. Herget

Next Meetings are scheduled as follows:

ITS Executive Committee Meetings:

September 2, 2002 (am) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Singaporeduring IEEE ITSC 2002

ITS Council Meetings:

September 2, 2002 (1:00 pm – 4:00 pm) . . . . . . . . . Singapore International Convention& Exhibition Centre, during IEEE ITSC 2002

February 15, 2003 (6:30 pm – 9:30 pm) . . . . . . . . Fairmont Hotel, Dallas, Texas, USA

October 7, 2003 (1:00 pm – 4:00 pm) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shanghai, Chinaduring IEEE ITSC 2003

IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference:

September 3–6, 2002 . . . . . Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre,Singapore

October 8–10, 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shanghai, China

IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium:

May 15–17, 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Columbus, Ohio, USA

June 15–18, 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Parma, Italy




Report on the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2002by Michel Parent

The 2002 session of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Vehicles took place on the weekof June 17-21 in Versailles. The conference returned to France for the second time and it took place, quiteappropriately, in the heart of French automotive research. Although Versailles is well known for its palaceand rich history, it is also the epicentre of the automotive industrial research for Renault, Peugeot-Citroen,Matra, Thales and many others, as well as numerous public and university research organisations.

As it is now customary, the event included three major parts:

• a tutorial session organised by Professor Claude Laurgeau of Ecole des Mines de Paris, which tookplace on June 17 at INRIA,• the scientific conference which was organised by a scientific committee under the leadership of Dr Uwe

Franke from DaimlerChrysler and which took place in the congress center of Versailles on June 18-20,• a demonstration of advanced vehicles organised by Dr Jean-Marc Blosseville of the LIVIC, and which

took place on the private tracks of the GIAT in Versailles-Satory on June 20-21.

The overall chairman of the event this year was Dr Michel Parent

Paris street sign: Recharge zones forelectric cars are common in countrythat hosted the 2002 IV Symposium(Photo by Emily Sopensky).

from INRIA.

This year, the conference was at a turning point with severalproducts that we dreamt of ten years ago now available on produc-tion cars including adaptive cruise control, electronic stability pro-gram, lane keeping assistant, collision warning. Yet more is to come,with parking assistance, stop&go, intelligent speed adaptation, pla-tooning,...

Researchers have dreamt of fully autonomous vehicles platoon-ing at high speed on automated highways, and have demonstratedthat the technology is viable. Is this still a dream or will it cometrue one day? Many think that the difficulties are enormous, but itwould be foolish to predict what might happen in the next twentyyears. However, this year’s conferences and demonstrations havepresented several fully autonomous vehicles, called cybercars, whichare already on the market. These vehicles are still far from ourdream automobile that anyone can use to go anywhere, anytime,at any speed. They are restricted to operate at low speed in con-trolled environments, but could they be the precursors of the futureautomated highway vehicles?

The tutorials were attended by 48 participants while more than300 registered participants attended the scientific conference. Thetwo keynotes speech given by Professor Ernst Dickmanns (with abroad overview of vision systems for autonomous driving) and by DrTsugawa (on communications for cooperative driving) were particu-larly well attended. The demonstrations on the last days attractedabout 500 visitors including a large participation from the media.For more pictures, see http://www-rocq.inria.fr/imara/iv2002.




Call for Participation: IEEE ITSC 2002, Sept 3-6, Singaporeby Der-Horng Lee

The IEEE 5th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC2002) is to be heldin Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre from 3-6 September 2002. Forty technicalsessions, one workshop, two tutorials, and five technical tours will be presented to conference participants.

ITSC2002 proudly announces that Mr. KHAW Boon Wan, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Trans-port, Republic of Singapore, will be the Guest-of-Honour of the opening ceremony and to deliver the openingaddress.

The Conference is also proud to present four plenary speeches. The plenary speakers are:

• Pravin Varaiya, Nortel Networks Distinguished Professor, University of California, Berkeley

• Dr. Sadayuki Tsugawa, ITS Research Group Leader, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Scienceand Technology (AIST), Japan

• Dr. Christian Laugier, Research Director at INRIA, Head of SHARP Project

• Mr Han Eng Juan, Chief Executive, Land Transport Authority, Singapore

Information about the conference, program, registration and accommodation is available online athttp://www.itvs.eng.nus.edu.sg/itsc2002

Information about Singapore is available athttp://www.newasia-singapore.com/

Any inquiry regarding IEEE ITSC2002 should be directed to conference secretary:

Professor Der-Horng LeeDepartment of Civil EngineeringNational University of SingaporeBLK E1A #07-161 Engineering Drive 2Singapore 117576+65-6874-2131+65-6779-1635 (Fax)[email protected]

On behalf of ITSC2002 Organizing Committee, I look forward to seeing you all in Singapore.



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CFP: IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2003by Umit Ozguner

1st ANNOUNCEMENT

IV 2003 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Columbus, OH, USA, June 9-11, 2003

CALL FOR PAPERS. The Intelligent Vehicles (IV) Symposium is one of two professional meetings annually sponsored by the IEEE Intelligent Transportation System Council. IV is an open forum on basic research, present and future applications for Intelligent Vehicles and Intelligent Infrastructures. This symposium is characterized by a single session format so that all the attendees remain in a single room for multilateral communications in an informal atmosphere. As another tradition, the meetings have enthusiastic participation from industry, as well as research centers and universities. Papers dealing with all aspects of vehicle-related intelligent systems and cooperation between vehicles and infrastructures are solicited for IV2003. TOPICS Driver Assistance & Inform. Systems Driver monitoring Infrastructure Intelligence Special Automated Road Vehicles Impact on Traffic Flows

System Architectures Imaging and Vision Human-machine Interfaces Communications and Networks Impact on Drivers

Sensors Vehicle Control Active Safety AHS

PAPER SUBMISSION Prospective authors are requested to send an extended abstract by e-mail, preferably through the Web page no later than December 1st, 2002. The extended abstract must be 2 to 4 pages including figures with enough detail for review for content and appropriateness. A separate cover page should include (1) the title of the paper, (2) the name of the authors, (3) the name, mailing address, telephone and fax number, and e-mail address of the contact author. Special session organization is encouraged. Organizers should contact Dr. Sadayuki Tsugawa with a proposal by November 1st, 2002. TUTORIAL and TOURS Tutorial sessions and tours are going to be held on June 8 (Sunday). DEADLINES Extended Abstracts due for review Organized Session Proposal Notification of acceptance Camera-ready full paper for proceedings due

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UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION Please refer frequently to the following website http://eewww.eng.ohio-state.edu/~umit/IV2003 for the most up-to-date information or contact the General Chair/Conference Secretariat ([email protected]) .

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Report on IEEE Trans. on Intelligent Transportation Systemsby Chelsea C. White

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Editor’s Report, 25 July 2002

Paper submissions to date have increased over last year. To date, we have received double the numberof papers through July of 2002.

Vol. 3, No. 2, June 2002, which was late going to press, should be out at the end of July.

Vol.3, No.3 of the Transactions has been sent to the publisher and should be published on time. This isa special issue of papers presented at IV 2001 in the area of Intelligent Control and Sensing in IV. We wouldlike to thank the Guest Editors, Prof. Katsushi Ikeuchi, Dr. Masataka Kagesawa, and Shunsuke Kamijo,for their excellent work on the special issue.

Prof. Petros Ioannou has proposed a special issue on Adaptive Cruise Control Systems. A Call for Paperswill be published in the June issue of the Transactions, space permitting.

We would like to thank everyone again for his or her patience with us during the our transition to ournew city and my new position. Please call problems to our attention so that we can correct them as soon astime allows.

Chelsea C. White IIIISyE Professor of Transportation and LogisticsSchool of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE)Georgia Institute of Technology765 Ferst AvenueAtlanta, Georgia 30332-0205 U.S.A.PHONE 404 894 0235 FAX 404 894 2301EMAIL: [email protected]





IEEE Trans. on Intelligent Transportation Systems - Indexby Jerri White

Vol.3, No.3, September 2002

Special Issue presenting papers from the Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2001.

• Vehicle Control Algorithms for Cooperative Driving with Automated Vehicles and Inter-Vehicle Communications, by Shin Kato, Sadayuki Tsugawa, Kiyohito Tokuda, Takeshi Matsui, andHaruki Fujii

Abstract: This paper describes the technologies of the cooperative driving with automatedvehicles and inter-vehicle communications in the Demo 2000 cooperative driving. The cooperativedriving, aiming at the compatibility of safety and efficiency of road traffic, here means thatautomated vehicles drive by forming a flexible platoon over a couple of lanes with a short inter-vehicle distance while performing lane changing, merging, and leaving the platoon. The vehiclesfor the demonstration are equipped with automated lateral and longitudinal control functionswith localization data by the DGPS and the inter-vehicle communication function with 5.8 GHzDSRC designed for the dedicated use in the demonstration. In order to show the feasibility andpotential of the technologies, the demonstration was held in November, 2000 on a test trackwith 5 automated vehicles. The scenario included stop & go, platooning, merging and obstacleavoidance.

• Artificial Vision in Extreme Environments for Snowcat Tracks Detection, by Alberto Broggiand Alessandra Fascioli

Abstract: This paper describes the image processing techniques designed to localize tracks ofsnowcats for the automation of goods and people transportation during the Italian scientificmissions in Antarctica. The final goal is to enable a snowcat to automatically follow the precedingone in a train-like fashion.A camera is used to acquire images of the scene; the image sequence is analyzed by a computervision system which idenfities the tracks and produces a high level description of the scene. Thisresult is then forwarded to a further software module in charge of the control of the snowcatmovement. A further optional representation, in which markers highlighting the tracks are super-imposed onto the acquired image, is transmitted to a human supervisor located off-board.This system has been tested in the Italian test site and is currently under testing in the South Poleduring the early 2002 Italian scientific mission. The paper briefly describes also an alternativesolution based on an evolutionary approach.

• Fast Obstacle Detection for Urban Traffic Situations, by Uwe Franke and Stefan Heinrich

Abstract: The early recognition of potentially harmful traffic situations is an important goal ofvision based driver assistance systems. Pedestrians, in particular children, are highly endangeredin inner city traffic. Within the DaimlerChrysler UTA (Urban Traffic Assistance) project, weare using stereo vision and motion analysis in order to manage those situations. The flow/depthconstraint combines both methods in an elegant way and leads to a robust and powerful detectionscheme. A ball bouncing on the road often implies a child crossing the street. Since balls appearvery small in the images of our cameras and can move considerably fast, a special algorithm hasbeen developed to achieve maximum recognition reliability.

• An Obstacle Detection Method by Fusion of Radar and Motion Stereo, by Takeo Kato,Yoshiyuki Ninomiya, and Ichiro Masaki




Abstract: In order to avoid collision with an object that blocks the course of a vehicle, measuringthe distance to it and detecting positions of its side boundaries, are necessary. In this paper, anobject detection method achieved by the fusion of millimeter wave radar and a single video camerais proposed. We consider the method is the least expensive solution because at least one camera isnecessary for lane marking detection. In the method, the distance is measured by the radar, andthe boundaries are found from an image sequence, based on motion stereo technique with helpof the distance measured by the radar. Since the method does not depend on the appearance ofobjects, it is capable of detecting not only an automobile but also other objects. Object detectionby the method was confirmed through an experiment. In the experiment, both a stationary anda moving object were detected, and a pedestrian as well as a vehicle was detected.

• An Algorithm for Distinguishing the Types of Objects on the Road Using Laser Radarand Vision, by Noriko Shimomura, Kazumi Fujimoto, Takahiko Oki, and Hideo Muro

Abstract: This paper describes a method for distinguishing the types of forward objects detectedon and alongside the road using a vehicle-mounted scanning laser radar (SLR) and a camera. Thismethod can measure the distance to a preceding vehicle in the same lane as well as to other forwardvehicles in adjacent lanes. Objects are detected on the basis of SLR digital signal data and arecategorized as vehicles, delineators and signs based on their motion and positions relative towhite lane markers. The motions of detected objects are judged by the relationship between thepath of the host vehicle and changes in the positions of the objects. The host vehicle’s path iscomputed using steering maneuver data and the vehicle velocity. White lane markers are detectedby an image processing technique. The proposed algorithm has been validated in an experimentconducted with a simulator. Data recorded at a driving speed of more than 40 km per hour onJapanese expressways were used in the simulation. The types of objects detected on the roadwere successfully distinguished as expected.

• Distance Range Based Segmentation in Intelligent Transportation Systems: Fusion ofRadar and Binocular Stereo, by Yajun Fang, Ichiro Masaki, and Berthold Horn

Abstract: Dynamic environment interpretation is of special interest for intelligent vehicle sys-tems. It is expected to provide lane information, target depth, and the image positions of targetswithin given depth ranges. Typical segmentation algorithms cannot solve the problems satisfac-torily, especially under the high-speed requirements of a real-time environment. Furthermore, thevariation of image positions and sizes of targets creates difficulties for tracking. In this paper, wepropose a sensor fusion method that can make use of coarse target depth information to segmenttarget locations in video images. The idea is to split an edge map of a binocular image into Nedge layers corresponding to N given target depth information so that different layers containthe edge pixels of targets at different depth ranges. In this way, the original multiple-targetsegmentation task is decomposed into several simpler and easier single-target segmentation taskson each depth-based target feature layer, thus improving the segmentation performance. Coarsedepth ranges can be provided by radar systems or by a vision-based algorithm introduced in thepaper. The new segmentation method offers more accuracy and robustness while decreasing thecomputational load.

• Development of Night Vision System, by Takayuki Tsuji, Hiroshi Hattori, Masahito Watanabe,and Nobuharu Nagaoka

Abstract: A night vision system has been developed to help reduce vehicle-pedestrian accidentsoccurring at night. High-temperature objects assumed to be pedestrians are detected by pro-cessing the images from infrared stereo cameras mounted on the vehicle, and the possibility of acollision is judged by calculating the position and relative moving vectors of the pedestrian. Inaddition, voice guidance is provided and a highlighted infrared image of the pedestrian is displayedat the bottom of the front windshield using a head-up display (HUD). It was determined that thesystem could judge the possibility of collisions with pedestrians on the road or crossing the road.



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CFP: IEEE Trans on ITS: SI on Adaptive Cruise Control Systemsby Petros Ioannou

Call for Papers

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Special Issue On Adaptive Cruise Control Systems

Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) or Intelligent Cruise Control Systems as often referred to are finding theirway into the market. These systems form a significant step towards vehicle automation and their successwill determine the speed with which future more advanced systems will be deployed providing additionalautomatic features for passenger and possibly commercial vehicles. The effects of ACC on vehicle following,traffic flow characteristics, environment, human response, driver comfort and safety are very crucial for thefuture success of ACC as well as for their development to more advanced systems.

The purpose of this special issue is to bring together experts in the field to present their most recentresults on ACC in a single journal.

Potential topics to be considered are:

• Design, Analysis and Implementation of ACC Systems• Effect of ACC systems on traffic flow characteristics• Effect of ACC systems on the environment• Human factors issues associated with ACC• Safety issues associated with ACC• Advanced ACC systems that may include collision avoidance systems• Cooperative ACC systems• ACC systems for commercial vehicles

The authors are invited to submit papers on any of the above topics. The papers should be written inaccordance to the standards and format of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.Seven copies of the paper should be submitted before September 10, 2002 to:

Petros Ioannou, Guest EditorCenter for Advanced Transportation TechnologiesEE-Systems, MC2562, EEB200BUniversity of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles, CA 90089

The submitted papers will be sent out for review and decisions will be made according to the followingschedule:

Paper Submission Deadline: September 10, 2002Completion of Review Process: November 10, 2002Revised Papers for Publication Due: December 10, 2002Final Manuscripts Due: No Later than December 31, 2002Expected publication: March 2003


MAILTO:ioannou@[email protected]


Papers, which do not pass the first review process or require extensive modifications that may not befeasible within the time limits indicated above, would be encouraged for revision and resubmission as regularpapers.

Disruptive? Technology?by Emily Sopensky

By all appearances, becoming the Dean of The Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania, Philadel-phia, Penna., USA) is neither disruptive nor has anything to do with technology.

But Patrick T. Harker, who is the 12th Dean of the school, came to this position two years ago anddisrupted a certain way of doing things.

First of all, he is young. He is only 43.

Second, he is an insider. He’s been at Penn since the late Seventies.

Then, too, he is a college prof, not a professional administrator or fundraiser.

But most interestingly, he is an engineer, whose discipline focuses on transportation issues.

A faculty member for 15 years, Harker has held numerous leadership positions at Penn, including servingas interim dean and deputy dean. In these capacities, Harker oversaw development of the MBA program’s e-commerce major and expanded the school’s distance learning initiatives. He was named the UPS Transporta-tion Professor for the Private Sector in 1991, and served as chairperson of the Operations and InformationManagement Department from 1997 to 1999. Harker earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees inengineering from Penn in 1981. He received a master’s degree in economics and a Ph.D. in civil engineering,also from Penn, in 1983.

More intriguing is the notion of engineers having an aptitude for business. We know it happens. Thegreat firms that are truly revered - like Hewlett- Packard and Intel to name just two - were started, run, andshepherded by engineers. Yet, we pay little attention to the business side of engineering and technology.

That’s why we posed a few questions to Dean Harker, which he so graciously answered for us - and gavesome great advice.

Q: Before teaching, you were first trained as an engineer. What attracted you to teaching?In my junior year, a faculty member offered me the opportunity to act as a lab assistant and to do some

teaching. After the first time in the classroom, I was hooked!

Q: You received your doctorate in civil engineering, but you also have a masters degree ineconomics. Can you tell us how these are complementary? And how they helped you whenyou were the UPS Transportation Professor for the Private Sector?

My dissertation work involved developing predictive models of traffic flows. Thus, this work encompassedoperations research, economics, and fundamentals of transportation systems. Many areas of systems engi-neering require the mixture of modeling/ mathematical skills along with a deep understanding of economics.Transportation systems, for example, are not just technical systems, but involve humans and their interac-tion with the technology. Thus, this combination is quite natural. Over the years, I became more interestedin economics and I made a natural transition to being the UPS Professor.




Q: When you first became Dean, you said in an interview that you’d like to ”take the schoolto the next level and create a true community of learners where the boundaries between teacherand student start to be broken apart.” How do you see that happening?

We’re moving quite aggressively as a school to focus less on teaching and more on learning. This statementsounds trivial, but is quite profound in it’s implications. Higher education is set up to teach. Thus, we teachclasses 1.5 hours at a time. However, is this the best way to learn? We’re investing in new learningtechnologies in the Al West Learning Lab at Wharton to explore new methods to help students learn. Also,we’re taking students to Marine Corps officer training, mountain climbing, etc. to help them learn abouttheir leadership skills. This is happening on campus today and will continue, as students become alumni.It’s a real commitment to helping students become active, life-long learners.

Q: With the softening of the economy, has Wharton seen more people applying for entrance?If so, what percentage are engineers or come from a technical background?

Yes, we’ve hit record numbers of applications this year. About a third of the class are engineers and thishas been the case for many years. We offer an executive-format MBA in San Francisco (Wharton West),and about one-half of the folks in this program are engineers or computer scientists.

Q: What is the value to an engineer or an engineering student to think in terms of an MBAor matter any business education.

Simply, I think the value is to see the whole picture. Engineers function in a complex system of not justtechnological innovation, but also monetary flows and human relationships. To effectively lead organization,one needs to see how capital, technology, and people interact. It’s this synthesis of knowledge that we strivefor in a business school.

Q: Since this interview is being conducted in the late spring of 2002 - commencement timefor many students graduating - do you have any general words of advice for those reading thisnewsletter who have been recently graduated?

Take risks. There is no better time to follow your dreams. You may not get the perfect job right now, sothink for the long-run about where you want your career to go, and make sure that you’re constantly movingtoward your goalsGranted that Harker’s position is one-of-a-kind - literally – understanding and workingwith the business of technology is important for all engineers. Whether as an academic seeking funds frombusiness, as a professional engineer selling services to a business, or as an engineer working for a business,becoming ”business savvy” can only enhance any engineer’s career.

Mixin’ Bizness and Engineeringby Emily Sopensky

One of our longtime ITS Council representatives was just elected as the 2003 VP of Finance.

William Scherer, Professor of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Virginia,(Charlottesville, VA, USA) just spent the last year on his sabbatical teaching at the world renowned DardenSchool of Business at the University of Virginia.

Could it be that his sabbatical made him more eligible to replace a Wharton grad who is at her termlimit?

Dunno. Let’s hear what Bill has to say about his academic studies.




Q: Before teaching, you were first trained as an engineer. What attracted you to teaching?WS: Throughout college I enjoyed working with fellow students and helping them understand the material

being covered, and as I progressed through graduate school I began to consider teaching at a University asa career. In the years after receiving the PhD I decided that a research university was the best fit for mycareer goals.

Q: Where and what did you study as an undergrad and graduate student?WS: I began as an electrical engineer at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, but decided that I pre-

ferred dealing with large-scale systems and transferred to the University of Virginia (UVa) in the systemsengineering department. I became involved with interesting research as an undergraduate, working with ChipWhite, and continued on through to the PhD with Chip as my advisor. My dissertation involved stochasticcontrol, specifically algorithms for improving the solution speed of Markov Decision Processes (MDPs).

[Note: Chip White is the editor in chief of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportations Systems.]

Q: What led you to study transportation systems?WS: My interest is in modeling large-scale complex systems and related systems engineering issues.

Transportation systems definitely meet my criteria! A small, but quality transportation research groupwas active at UVa in those early years. That group has grown to a significant Center for Transportationstudies that includes a unique Smart Travel Lab (STL - http://itsm.sys.virginia.edu/). Our activities involveaspects of systems design, such as writing requirement for TMC (traffic management centers), evaluatingITS technologies, developing and implementing forecasting and optimization algorithms, and designing datawarehouses.

Q: Have you seen more or fewer engineering students at UVA interested in transportationsystems?

WS: Interest in transportation systems has definitely grown, especially as information technology hasbecome a critical component in transportation systems. Our efforts at the STL require very contemporaryand interdisciplinary skills, including computer science, systems engineering, electrical engineering, andapplied mathematics. As a result, we have students from almost every department in the engineering schoolinvolved in transportation systems research. We also involve students at all levels - first year undergraduatesas well as doctoral students - in our research projects.

Q: You spent your sabbatical teaching at the U VA Darden School (business admin). Whydid you want to teach there? What course(s) did you teach?

WS: I wanted to see the application of quantitative analysis tools from the pure business perspective.While I was there, I taught a first year MBA course on Quantitative Analysis and an advanced electiveon Optimization Models with a Darden colleague, Robert Carraway. Given the extensive amounts of dataavailable in most organizations today, analytical decision tools are more critical than ever if the data beingstored is going to be transformed into information and eventually business decisions. This vast amount ofinformation, e.g., what is now available in the transportation world, has created an incredible potential foranalytical modeling and improved decisions.

Emily Sopensky, the VP of Finance for the ITS Council, received her MBA from the Wharton School.She is looking forward to Dr. Scherer’s participation.



Editor’s note: Andrew L. Drozd made IEEE Fellow this yearby Alberto Broggi

We are proud to announce that one of our long-time Council representatives from the ElectromagneticCompatibility Society recently was named IEEE Fellow. Here’s a bio we found on him at:http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/emcs/winter00/board.htm

Andrew L. Drozd is President of and Chief Scientist for ANDRO ConsultingServices, which is dedicated to work in the fields of EMC, CEM, and electromagneticenvironmental effects (E3). He received a BS in Physics and Mathematics in 1977 andan MSEE specializing in Communications/Signal Processing in 1982, both from Syra-cuse University. His professional responsibilities include: systems engineering; EMCcomputer modeling, simulation and analysis; exploitation of innovative, expert systemtechnologies for EMC/CEM analytical applications; and EMC laboratory testing sup-port including the design and conduct of experiments. Mr. Drozd continues to applyhis over 23 years of technical and program experience in electromagnetics technologies

primarily for the modeling and analysis of E3 effects, environments, and responses for government and com-mercial systems. Mr. Drozd is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an active EMC Society Member for over 15years. He has completed his first three-year term as a Member of the EMC Society Board of Directors. Heis involved in several important initiatives that cut across membership, technical, standards, and communi-cations services for the Society. He is Vice Chair of the Education Committee and has organized the EMCExperiment Demonstrations for the annual IEEE EMC symposia since 1992. He is a Member of the EMCSociety SDCOM and is the EMC Society senior liaison on the newly formed IEEE Intelligent TransportationSystem Technical Council. Mr. Drozd is the current EMC Chapter Chair for the IEEE Mohawk ValleySection and is a Member of the TC-9 Committee on Computational Electromagnetics. He is a Member ofthe IEEE Continuing Education Products Committee and has been actively involved in the IEEE sponsoredDual Use/Information Technologies and Applications Conference held annually in Upstate New York wherehe was responsible for establishing tracks that address EMC concerns in the information age. Mr. Drozd isalso a NARTE certified EMC Engineer. He has authored and co-written approximately 100 technical papers,reports, and newsletter/journal articles on various EMC topics. Mr. Drozd continues to support the goalsof the EMC Society on behalf of membership development, promoting education, standards development,and webmaster activities.



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Non-Council ITS News

CFP: IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazineby Alberto Broggi

IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine

Call for Short Papers/Reports

IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine has started a regular department on Intelligent TransportationSystems. This department (published in each issue) describes current trends and ideas for future sys-tems/realizations/projects in the field of ITS.

People willing to share their ideas and disseminate the results oftheir projects are invited to prepare a short article (from 2 to 5 mag-azine pages) describing current trends, projects, research directions,and their experience in any field of Intelligent Transportation Systems.

For further publication guidelines and for suggestions, contact theeditor at [email protected] with a possible outline of the proposedarticle or browse www.ce.unipr.it/broggi/is-department for a quicklook at past installations of this department.

Thanks to an agreement with the Magazine, published articles arereprinted in this Newsletter.

Faculty position in Intelligent Transportation Systems and Telematicsby Will Recker

Dear Colleague:We are asking your help in identifying candidates for a tenure-track faculty position in Intelligent TRANS-

PORTATION Systems AND TELEMATICS that we are currently filling here at the University of California,Irvine. Depending upon the candidate’s background and interests, the primary appointment will be either inthe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering or in the Department of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering, with the possibility of joint appointment in the other department or in the Department ofInformation and Computer Science. The position requires a Ph.D. degree in any of the allied disciplines ofCivil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and/or Computer Engineering, Computer Science.




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We would greatly appreciate your bringing the attached position announcement to the attention ofany colleagues or completing Ph.D. students who you think might be interested in such a position. Anyinterested parties can reply directly to me at the address included in the announcement or e-mail me [email protected]. Thanks for your help.

Will Recker, ProfessorDepartment of Civil and Environmental EngineeringDirector, Institute of Transportation Studies522 Social Science TowerUniversity of CaliforniaIrvine, CA 92697-3600, USA

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A glimpse on the Webby Alessandra Fascioli

This department is dedicated to catching a glimpse on the WWW trying to discover interesting ITS relatedWeb resources. Reviewed sites range from research programs and projects, to software packages, databases,associations, non-profit companies, and more.Every suggestion or contribution is welcome and should be addressed to [email protected].

• ERTICO is an international public/private partnership for Intelligent Transport Systems andServices (ITS) in Europe. It is a non-profit company and its two dominant issues are using ITS tosupport transport policy and making ITS profitable. This is accomplished through Projects, Fora,Committees and other initiatives as well as through the Regional and World Congresses.Link to ERTICO site:http://www.ertico.com

• ITS Institute of the University of Minnesota is a University Transportation Center (UTC)whose mission is to advance U.S. technology and expertise in the many disciplines that make uptransportation. Their slogan is ”To enhance the safety and mobility of road and transit-basedtransportation through a focus on human-centered technology.”Link to the ITS Institute of the University of Minnesota:http://www.its.umn.edu

• The Transport Engineering Laboratory of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki isa multidisciplinary research group that focuses on transport related issues. It aims at promotingapplied research and new methodologies in the field of transport. They have projects on telematicstandards and systems for elderly and disabled travellers, new technologies in maritime transoprt,testing of actual freight operations. Link to the Transport Engineering Laboratory of the Universityof Thessaloniki:http://hermes.civil.auth.gr

• The USA National Associations Working Group for ITS, in partnership with the U.S. De-partment of Transportation, is composed of national associations of both state and local officialsand transportation service providers with a common interest in understanding the concepts, prac-tices and applications of ITS.Link to National Associations Working Group for ITS site:http://www.nawgits.com

• IVsource.net is one of the most complete and up-to-date web resources dedicated to promote thefield of Intelligent Vehicles and to keep track of developments in this emerging industry. It offersa news service publicizing products, projects and press releases, an updated calendar of IV-relatedevents, a place to post job vacancies, a wide collection of presentations, reports, articles, and muchmore.Link to IVsource.net:http://www.ivsource.net




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Upcoming Conferences, Workshops, or Symposiaby Massimo Bertozzi

This section lists upcoming ITS-related conferences, workshops, or exhibits. Contributions are welcome;please send announcements to [email protected].

ITE 2002 Annual Meeting and Exhibithttp://www.ite.org/AnnualMeeting/sixdays.aspPhiladelphia, USA — August 4–7

Applications Of Advanced Technology In Transporta-tionhttp://www.asce.org/conferences/aatt2002Cambridge, USA — August 5–7

IRF & ARF: Asia Pacific Road Conference & Exhi-bitionSydney, Australia — Septemeber 1–5

6th International Symposium on Advanced VehicleControl (AVEC‘02)http://avec02.mech.cst.nihon-u.ac.jp/Hiroshima, Japan — September, 9–13

Rural Advanced Technology & Transportation Sys-tems Conference (CAATS & RAATS 2002)http://www.ruralits.org/callforpapers.htmMonterey, USA — September 10–13

7th Driving Simulation Conference and Exhibition(DSC2001)http://dsc2002.inrets.fr/Paris, France — September 11–13

Operations Transport & Safetyhttp://www.ite.org/meetcon/2002/Melbourne.pdfMelbourne, Australia — September 12–13

E-Safety, IT Solutions For Safety And Security In In-telligent TransportLyon, France — September 16–18

Engineering of Intelligent SystemsMalaga, Spain — September 24

IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference(VTC-2002 (fall))http://www.fallvtc2002.org/cfp.htmVancouver, Canada — September 24–29

Artificial and Computational Intelligence (ACI 2002)Tokyo, Japan — September 25–27

Intelligent Systems and Control (ISC 2002)Tsukuba, Japan — October 1–4

Minimizing Driver Distraction Symposium andWorkshopRoanoke, USA — October 7–9

The 3rd International Workshop on ITS Telecommu-nicationhttp://www.itst2002.org/Seoul, Korea — November 7–8

Transport System Telematicshttp://zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl/ tst/Ustron, Poland — November 7–9

International Exhibition for Intelligent Traffic Sys-tems, Public Design and ParkingBeijing, China — November 13–15

ITS Texas Annual Meetinghttp://itstexas.tamu.edu/meeting.htmSan Antonio, USA — November 13–15

7th International Conference on Control, Automa-tion, Robotics and Visionhttp://www.ntu.edu.sg/eee/icarcvSingapore — December 2–5

IEEE International Workshop on Computer Archi-tectures for Machine Perceptionhttp://web.cacs.louisiana.edu/camp2002Powai, India — December 27–29

AeroSense 2003http://spie.org/conferences/Calls/03/or/Orlando, USA — April 21–25, 2003,♦ submission by September 23

3rd International Conference on Computer VisionSystems (ICVS 2003)http://dib.joanneum.at/ICVS03/Graz, Austria — April 1–3, 2003,♦ submission by October 15

Demo 2003San Diego, USA — August 16–20, 2003

International Task Force on Vehicle-Highway Au-tomationChicago, USA — October, 16–18




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CFP: Special Issue of IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazineby Stefano Stramigioli

Special Issue on

Robotic Technologies applied toIntelligent Transportation Systems

Robotic technologies are vastly used in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems. Fewexamples could be found in vision applications like tracking visual servoing or control of linear andnonlinear systems.

The goal of this special issue is to present to the reader the state of the art of those technologieswhich find an application in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems.

Traffic supervision, path planning, obstacle avoidance, measurement systems are all example oftypical robotic technologies applied to the field of transportation.

Objectives

Give an overview of the applied research works, mainly the ones that reached industry. Authors areinvited to submit papers that meet all of the following criteria:

1. Reflect collaboration work being carried out in cooperation between industry and academia, withmutually provided efforts and resources, and that reached prototype phase.

2. Reflect advances in the area of robotics and automation which have been matured for intelligenttransportation systems.

3. Describe in detail the problem under study, options available, and reasons to have followed thepresented path.

4. Give enough technical details, nevertheless avoiding long system descriptions.

Deadline Submission

Notification Acceptance

Final Paper Due

Publication is targeted to

Criteria for Selection

28th of February 2003

1st of June 2003

15th of June 2003

September 2003`

All papers submitted will have 3 independent reviews.

Electronic Submission at http://www.geoplex.utwente.nl/ras

Corresponding Editor Stefano Stramigioli

Editors

Prof. Stefano Stramigioli

[email protected]

University of Twente

The Netherlands

P.O. Box 217NL-7500 AE Enschede

Tel. +31 (53) 4892794/4892606Fax. +31 (53) 4892223

Email

Prof. Alberto Broggi

[email protected]

University of ParmaParco Area delle Scienze, 181A

I-43100 ParmaItaly

Tel. +39 (0521) 905707/905800Fax. +39 (0521) 905723Email

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